Reverse range of ip delegation

Dusan dkulisie at truni.sk
Wed Sep 17 13:16:19 UTC 2003


Mark_Andrews at isc.org wrote in message news:<bjqthg$q1i$1 at sf1.isc.org>...
> > Hallo all,
> > I have a following problem. We have got a range of public IP of class
> > C. These 256 IPs were cut into two areas by the router of our
> > provider: 1-127 and 128-256 (255.255.255.128). I have to administer
> > the second one.
> > I do not know exactly how to do a reverse mapping.
> > 128.x.x.x.in-addr.arpa is supposedly not correct.
> > I was thinking of this:
> > $ORIGIN 128.168.192.in-addr.arpa.
> > 128-256 NS dns.ourdomain.sk
> > would these two lines be enough to correctly delegate it?
> > Thank for your reply
> > Regards
> > Dusan
> > 
> 
> 	You also need to generate the set of CNAMEs that point into
> 	the other zone.  You also forgot the terminating peroid on
> 	the nameserver's name.  You should also have a second
> 	nameserver to serve this zone.  The range is 128-255, not 256.
> 
> 	RFC 2317 has more detail.
> 
> $ORIGIN 128.168.192.in-addr.arpa.
> 128-255 NS dns.ourdomain.sk.
> $GENERATE 128-255 $ CNAME $.128-255
> 
> 	Mark


Thank you very much Mark, it works !
Obviously I mixed the issues by putting as an example a private range
128.168.192.in-addr.arpa, I meant the public range of course :)
I used the recommended lines with our public range and it worked.
Again, thank you.
Regards
Dusan


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